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Coin Collecting for Kids
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| Part No: | 1584766247 |
| Manufacturer: | Innovative Kids |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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NEW REVISED EDITION! Newly updated to include Presidential $1 coins and Westward Journey nickels! A colorful, kid-friendly book to introduce children to a lifelong hobby, Coin Collecting for Kids encourages children to search for, save, and learn all about many different U.S. coins. Take a tour through the mint and save pennies from four different decades while learning about how coins are made. Slots on every page let kids collect birth-year coins, millennium coins, and twentieth-century coins. Lastly, a gatefold spread will accommodate all 50 wildly popular statehood quarters. Organized by release year, each slot lists the state's nickname, motto, flower, and bird.
| Good, but could be better | 2008-12-16 | 4 / 5 |
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Great for adults to teach and HELP kids. The key word here is help. Kids need to be able to read dates, mint marks, and what is written in the book. This is beyond most 6-7 and some 8 year olds
This book is based on a great idea, but the final product leaves a lot of room for improvement in the following areas.
1) The book says age 6-12. Under birth year coins, it has a space for a
large Silver Dollar(last one made 1978)
2) Binding stretches out turning pages
3) Some holes cut too large and coins fall out
4) Some holes cut too Small and coins are hard for an adult to push in
5) Leaves out the Sacagawea dollar, which is not hard for a kid to find
You must decide. I bought 5 for grandchildren. Oldest is 5. The 4 and 5 year old are a challenge, but are worth it to see the excitement they have when we find another coin to go in the book. I will put the other books aside for a few years till the rest are OLDER. |
| A great start to collecting anything, complete and kid-friendly | 2008-09-30 | 5 / 5 |
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I bought one for my 5 y.o son and then bought one for my 9 y.o. daughter because they enjoyed doing the first one so much. It is nice because it is simple to fill in a large portion of the book and the kids feel a sense of accomplishment.
There are some rare coins required but not a ton of them. I am finding several on eBay ($2.00 for a rare quarter, etc.) and the kids are saving up to buy a few of them.
Have a magnifying glass handy so kids can see the dates on the coins. You'll need a good pile of coins to start with. Your kids will be busy for an hour or so. I find that we put the books away and bring it back out every other month. We also carry around a list of the coins we are missing and keep an eye out for them.
This book was in my top 5 purchases of the year so far. |
| FANTASTIC!!! | 2008-08-18 | 5 / 5 |
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This past summer my kids and I sorted, counted, and rolled over $550 in coins. In the process we filled our coin collecting book (the previous version of this one) and I couldn't believe what a great bonding experience this was. I have 3 children 6 1/2, 5, and 3 years old. My 6 1/2 year old was really into this...not so much for my other ones. But, I think they were just a little to young for them. We're on the hunt to fill in all the slots in the book.
A TIP: We used glue to keep some of the coins in. They are a little tough to get in the slots, but we used a quarter and pressed the quarter on the coin to oush them into the slot. It's amazing how heavy the book gets when it's full. This was a great memory for me this summer. |
| Awesome Gift! | 2008-07-21 | 5 / 5 |
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| I bought this as a kindergarten graduation gift for my daughter. Little did I realize the family bonding it would inspire. She and my husband spent hours sifting through our coins. Then we took it to the grandparents house and they spend hours going through their coins with her. We now have given 3 more as birthday gifts to her friends. The slots work perfectly and the historical information is very well done. It's a gift she'll have for many, many years to come instead of a toy or book she'll outgrow someday. |
| Great book, bad binding | 2008-05-19 | 4 / 5 |
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| This is the third time I have purchased this book. What a great way to introduce children to coin collecting. However, with my third purchase, the binding has either changed or I received an older edition. The binding keeps getting caught on the pages but all in all I would still buy the book. However I would look for the version with metal ring binding versus the white plastic covered metal binding I received on this latest book. I would have given the product five stars otherwise. |
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